Annnnd, he was making a mess of this. He had no idea why he had thought that this would go well. Oh right, wishful thinking. Despite the fact that their conversations tended to go off the rails rather quickly, and usually crash and burn.
"All right, I want different things." There they were right into the it's me not you territory. "Your - your amazing Jessica, but -" he wanted kids. A family. Not that he wanted to drag kids into this whole Black Knight family business, but he did want kids. "I don't see this going anywhere. Do you?"